We were all very happy with this one. A simple commission to write an 'AC/DC' sound-a-like track for a band. We had been working with a lyricist on a couple of songs previously and tasked Jackie Spindley to come up with some lyrics that reflected the genre. Awesome guide vocals from John really brought it to life. To top it all off the track won the UK Songwriting competition when we entered it into the rock category!

'Lewis K', became the persona of mild mannered health insurance man, Simon Kelly, who we got to know through business and it turned out he could sing! We worked for some time on writing and producing tracks for an album that would hopefully get released. Lewis/Simon did get as far as putting a band together and started rehearsing. We both reckoned this title track was one of the best we wrote together. The link shows another track.

A good friend and session sax player, Sean McBride, suggested that we should collaborate with his mate James Hollingsworth, who had recently left JEBO as lead singer and was going solo. This song came out of a writing session and now features on his album, 13 moons and goes down well at his gigs.

Jason was a judge at a local talent competition and Julia Barela won. A session at The Song Diner wasn't a prize but at the time we were looking for someone Julia's age to sing a guide vocal on a track we were writing for a musical. Julia was a complete professional and had learnt the melody and harmonies before she turned up to the studio and sang her heart out. A lot of session singers could learn a great deal from Julia!

An all girl rock band had got together starting out with covers but there had come a time when the band wanted to start performing original songs. The band was called 'Pankhurst' so we came up with the completely appropriate 'Emmeline'. Guide vocals were sang by local session singer, Tammy Roylance.

This track was one amongst a few songs that were commissioned by John's publisher at the time to be presented at Midem and written by John and Jason.